When you love an Alzheimer’s person, you are given no reason to expect anything but that life will be more and more visibly and vividly difficult as the intruder chews up more of the essence of a human being, altering how they see things and hear things and feel things.

But one feeling that has not changed, and won’t for Lisa and Bruce, is the love that made their relationship extra special.

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Yes they had a lot of interests in common and friends they shared.

But it was the love that made them want to be together ’till death do them part.

And as you could hear, both in her voice and in her words, it does get difficult when your mind no longer allows you to do some of the things that you used to do, things that made life fun and adventuresome.

Nobody who has known me for years through radio and TV visits has any doubt about the love I felt for my father, one that grew as I saw him suffer, and struggle and stumble because while the worst brutes of World War II, Hitler and Stalin, couldn’t bring him down, the most brutal dictator of all, Alzheimer’s, did.

It did.

And it did make me a member of one of those clubs nobody wants to belong to.

For now, I just want every member of an Azheimer’s family to know you have my support, my thoughts and my love.

Here’s to Lisa Raitt and her husband Bruce Wood, and everyone else in this country who has walked a mile in their tough, tough shoes.